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[–] 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Because they started off as communist revolutions

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    A revolution without a solid, detailed plan for how to actually run the country afterword is just teenage angst exercised at a larger scale.

    "We're going to be a social anarchist commune!" does not count as a plan. It's an aspiration at best.

    If there is no plan laid out, with strong community buy-in, then what always happens is that the "revolution" gets co-opted by someone to serve their own power-hungry ambitions.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    and fascists took advantage of the resulting power vacuum.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago

    Not fascists. Fascists need expansionist military conquest for the regime to survive. When authoritarian communism goes bad, it's able to survive by The Revolution. The Revolution justifies any act, no matter how brutal and misguided.

    Fascism justifies itself through conquest and extermination of "lesser peoples", like the Slavs or the Palestinians.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    The larger problem of projecting is universal, and worse if the west if anything. No child left behind is to leave children behind, big beautiful bill is ugly, take any republican bill, it's all opposite, which is not substantially different from these other countries having an ironic name.

    It's not communist or capitalist, it's authoritarian.

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